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CrispyQ

(40,549 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:29 AM Aug 2025

It starts with one.



Resist!

Another DUer recommended the link below. If you scroll down, it's a long, long list of non-violent things you can do to resist. Every action adds up. I have about 10 yard signs & every day I put a different one out & cycle through them. About six weeks ago I was discouraged & thought what good does this tiny bit do, & two days later I found a note in my front door that said, "Thank you for putting your signs out every day. It gives me hope." A couple weeks ago someone mailed me $20 with a note that said, "Love your signs! We want to pitch in!" It doesn't seem like much but sometimes people just need to know they aren't alone in the way they feel.

Some good ideas here! https://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action

Here's a place to look for like-minded activist groups in your area: https://indivisible.org
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It starts with one. (Original Post) CrispyQ Aug 2025 OP
Thank you! Hope22 Aug 2025 #1
I am told daily... Totally Tunsie Aug 2025 #2
That's a really cool graphic jfz9580m Aug 2025 #3
I went to a local markie Aug 2025 #4
Do you still have this graphic? jfz9580m Friday #5
Hey there! CrispyQ Saturday #6
That's unfortunate jfz9580m Saturday #7

Totally Tunsie

(11,496 posts)
2. I am told daily...
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 11:11 AM
Aug 2025

"Hey - your flag pin is upside down."

I reply "No. No, it isn't. This is the sign of a nation in distress. OUR nation is in distress."

(Great illustration in your post, by the way.)

jfz9580m

(16,363 posts)
3. That's a really cool graphic
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:13 PM
Aug 2025

Did you make it CrispyQ?
Very cool if so ..

About six weeks ago I was discouraged & thought what good does this tiny bit do, & two days later I found a note in my front door that said, "Thank you for putting your signs out every day. It gives me hope." A couple weeks ago someone mailed me $20 with a note that said, "Love your signs! We want to pitch in!" It doesn't seem like much but sometimes people just need to know they aren't alone in the way they feel.


You are far from alone (and not in the creepy surveillance state way ;-/ ..that too probably but that’s less positive ;-/ )..

markie

(23,800 posts)
4. I went to a local
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:26 PM
Aug 2025

indivisible meeting a few nights ago... important stuff!!!

I'm pretty isolated where I am (home in Vermont, but sort of living and working in Maryland) and I asked if ICE had been in the community.... hadn't heard anything on news or from neighbors.... oh boy, did I hear stories.... we ALL need to go to these meetings and encourage as many people as we can to do the same... we are in this together and it is going to take ALL OF US






jfz9580m

(16,363 posts)
5. Do you still have this graphic?
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 11:57 AM
Friday

Hi CrispyQ,
I found the graphic you posted inspiring (and I am usually suspicious of concepts like inspiring ;-/..well the horrible corporate culture version anyway) back in August.

I was sad to see that it is down. I couldn’t find it with searches like “tyrant with whip”.
Do you still have it?

Now I remember that this post was where I first saw a reference to Indivisible. That looks like a good group.

(I like your posts btw. Your activism reminds me a bit of the work my mom in law does. She is also a citizen activist. I am very amicably divorced from my ex, but I still consider her mom adjacent. We were always close.

She would have fit right in on DU. But I keep my online rants separate from my irl rants ;-/ (not that there is much difference really..) so I never told her about DU.

I haven’t been in touch with her recently because I am in another country. I tried unsuccessfully several times to block out all Technofascist realities ;-/. )

But try as one might, Trumpian-Other Technofascist realities are hard to escape anywhere these days and I like stuff that boosts my morale in conflicts with similar hateful, gaslighting assholes where I live now.

I really liked that graphic.

CrispyQ

(40,549 posts)
6. Hey there!
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 02:51 PM
Saturday

I vaguely remember that image, unfortunately, I lost a ton of images recently with a computer SNAFU.

I don't tell my IRL political friend about DU either, but I'm sure some of them are here, even though I haven't a clue what their DU identity is. It's just they know about stuff at the same time I do & I got it here.

jfz9580m

(16,363 posts)
7. That's unfortunate
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:48 PM
Saturday

I loved that graphic.
It depicted a tyrant wielding a whip while a crowd of people cowered in front of him and then one person stands up and then another and then another and by the end the tyrant is cowering.

What was awesome was I think it was a graphic from Indivisible.

I am so sick of the lame gamer worldview- it’s not guns nor hacking expertise etc. What gave most of us average people any damn rights is grassroots activism like that, not some sleazy little apolitical arg or worse one shilled as pro democracy etc.

Just standing up to the fascists and not with a bloody trashy TED tech talk or sleazy little product in tow, but defense of your own humanity is enough.
Thats why I post here and not on Facebook.

Thank you. You inspired me CrispyQ. You all do and thank you for that .

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